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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3595874, member: 84744&quot;]Thanks, Brian!&nbsp; It&#039;s not super thick, so only about 60g.&nbsp; Here&#039;s both sides, a little brighter:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]961548[/ATTACH]</p><p>Suzhou mint, Jiangsu province, H22.917</p><p><br /></p><p>My notes on the history (since you&#039;re a history guy! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />): </p><p>This coin was issued during the Taiping rebellion, and a few years later (in 1860) the rebels would take Suzhou and reduce it to a husk of its former self. The Taiping rebellion was led by religious fanatic Hong Xiuquan, who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ, and wished to convert China to his syncretic version of Christianity which included elements of Chinese folk religion.&nbsp; It was the bloodiest civil war in history, with death toll estimates ranging between 20 and 100 million, mostly due to plague and famine.&nbsp; Suzhou was retaken for the Qing in 1863.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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